Re: Progress Bar
I see a lot of people asking about the progress bar. To be honest I don't think the progress bar does any movement based on application progress.
It's likely
only useful to see the start and end dates as estimates.
From my analysis this is what the bar actually does:
- Gets the date the application was received.
- Sets it at the starting point.
- Adds the estimated/average time to complete an application (from A-to-Z) to the start date.
- Then some sort of calculation:
- Count the days between the start and end date
- In my application, it was 640 days.
- Count the days between the start date and today's date
- In my application, based on today's date, it was 397 days.
- Get the percentage based on that:
- 397 / 640 = 0.6203125 = 62%
- Guess what it was in my application? Yup, 62%.
Any milestones or updates on the application itself doesn't reflect as movement on the progress bar.
I am assuming IRCC used averages to get the estimated time to completion, and that's probably going to be somewhat accurate for most people. There will probably be exceptions where some applications would go faster (easier to verify, quicker background checks, etc.) or slower (more complicated applications).
Guess there's also a
chance that they have sped things up, but have not yet updated the 'average time it takes' to that part of the code. That is just wishful thinking on my part though, and I wouldn't count on it (although I'm hoping it is true!).